When Charles Arthur Russ was born on 30 January 1875, in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States, his father, Jean John Baptiste Rouille Russ, was 57 and his mother, Susanna Moreau, was 42. He married Julia Cafferty on 23 June 1897, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 19 September 1936, in Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mount Carmel, Wabash, Illinois, United States.
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English: variant of Rouse .
German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with hrōd ‘renown’, for example Rudolf.
German (of Slavic origin): from Old Slavic rusъ ‘reddish’, used as a nickname (compare 6 below and Rus ).
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